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April 4-  2003:

11:15-13:00:  V. Sidoravicius
                 Percolation in strongly dependent environment

14:15-16:00:
 
Kurt  Johansson

         
                
Random permutations and random tilings

 

Abstracts:

V.Sidoravicius

"Percolation in strongly dependent environment"

Abstract. During the lecture I will mention several problems
which appeared in the last decade in  probability theory,
statistical mechanics and theoretical computer science, and
which, inspite of their different appearance, can be described
as a class of percolation processes in strongly dependent environments.
We will discuss general ideas  of multiscale analysis method suitable
for this type of dependence and, as well, present solutions to the
original problems.

Kurt  Johansson

Talk 1: Probability measures from random matrix theory
Talk 2: Random growth and random matrices

Talk 3: Random permutations and random tilings

Abstract: The eigenvalue measures from random matrix theory give
rise to probability measures which arise not only within random
matrix theory itself but also in other contexts. I will review
the basic facts from random matrix theory and discuss in
particular the occurrence of the largest eigenvalue distribution
in last-passage percolation, random permutations, certain two-dimensional
growth models and in random tilings.